She also was a TV presenter and is a writer. Father: João Olival. Mother: Maria de Lourdes Ferreira Horta Zanatti. Her maternal grandfather had Italian ancestry. She is an assumed lesbian.

She participated in several activist movements. Ana and some Portugues celebrities united to record and album. All the money that they did was send to children of Timor.

Her theater debut was the play "Cautela Libertino".

She was a Tv host for RTP (Portugues TV). She did interviews, presented contests, the news and songs festivals. In 1995 (after 25 hosting Tv shows)she gave up being a Tv host and started to dedicated to her acting career.